Example sentences of "[adv] be for my " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( I should point out that had it not been for my sister Etty , who had financed this latest venture , there would have been no printing business . ) |
| 2 | Your agent on Belial also murdered Federique Moshe-Rabaan in an attempt to divert Adjudicator Bishop 's suspicions : an attempt which would have succeeded had it not been for my , ’ and he preened himself , ‘ abilities at detection . |
| 3 | If it had not been for my brother , the Odonata would have drowned , just as the turtle-shaped biped drowned . |
| 4 | I do n't know how I 'd 've coped if it had n't been for my mum . |
| 5 | And I would n't have if it had n't been for my mother … |
| 6 | It could n't be for my uncle 's charms , or could it ? |
| 7 | No brickbats for that , for neither of them did it out of a sense of malice , but merely because they thought it was the right thing to do , and no doubt also because they believed , quite wrongly , that to instil a sense of guilt into me would ultimately be for my good , If I did what they thought was wrong then I was made to feel that someone , usually them , had suffered . |